09-08-2006, 07:42 PM
A patient is admitted with cyanide poisoning. Examination of a tissue biopsy would show which of the following effects on the mitochondrial respiratory chain (electron transport chain). The cytochromes would
A. become more reduced.
B. become less reduced.
C. be unchanged.
D. become irreversibly inhibited
E. become dissociated from the inner membrane.
RATIONALE
A. become more reduced.
B. become less reduced.
C. be unchanged.
D. become irreversibly inhibited
E. become dissociated from the inner membrane.
RATIONALE